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Feb 6, 2024 · The three-times Wimbledon men’s singles champion was jailed for two-and-a-half years in April 2022 for hiding £2.5m worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts. He was found guilty of four ...
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Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has been jailed for two and a half years for hiding £2.5m worth of assets and loans to avoid paying his debts.
The former world number one, 54, was declared bankrupt on June 21 2017, owing creditors almost £50m, over an unpaid loan of more than £3m on his estate in Mallorca, Spain.
BBC commentator Becker transferred almost 427,000 euros (around £390,000) from his business account to others, including those of his ex-wife Barbara and estranged wife Sharlely "Lilly" Becker.
Image: Becker arrived at court with his partner Lilian de Varvalho Monteiro
The father-of-four also failed to declare his share in a £1m property in his home town of Leimen, Germany, hid an 825,000 euro (almost £700,000) bank loan - worth £1.1m with interest - and concealed 75,000 shares in a tech firm, valued at £66,000.
Becker, who was handed a two-year suspended sentence for tax evasion and attempted tax evasion worth 1.7m euro (around £1.4m) in Germany in 2002, was found guilty of four offences under the Insolvency Act between June 21 and October 3, 2017 earlier this month.
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Three-time Wimbledon Champion Boris Becker has been jailed for flouting the terms of his 2017 bankruptcy
Becker, wearing a striped tie in the Wimbledon colours of purple and green, showed no emotion before being taken down to the cells.
He earlier arrived holding the hand of partner Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro, while his eldest son Noah was also in court.
Following his retirement, Becker coached current men's world No 1 Novak Djokovic, worked as a TV sports commentator for broadcasters including the BBC and acted as a brand ambassador for firms such as Puma.
His barrister Jonathan Laidlaw QC said Becker's "fall from grace" was "the most public humiliation".
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May 1, 2024 · After being made bankrupt, Becker, a former world number one, was jailed for two-and-a-half years in April 2022 after being found guilty of four offences related to hiding £2.5 million worth of ...
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Apr 29, 2022 · By Reuters. LONDON — German tennis great Boris Becker was jailed by a London court on Friday for hiding hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets after he was declared bankrupt. Becker was ...
